The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it. — Justin Cartwright Book Copy Share Image
If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a… — Justin Cartwright America Copy Share Image
Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel. — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don't. — Justin Cartwright Advertising Copy Share Image
'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword. — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
It is uncomfortable to be reminded that the Catholic church only removed the reference to 'perfidious Jews' from the Good Friday liturgy… — Justin Cartwright Church Copy Share Image
'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to… — Justin Cartwright Book Copy Share Image
In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea… — Justin Cartwright Advertising Copy Share Image
In his later years, Ramakrishna took up residence at the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, from where his radiance extended far, even beyond his… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Historians and journalists always have agendas, but if I want to find out what's going on in South Africa, I read Nadine… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that 'many of us have a road that reaches back into our… — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable… — Justin Cartwright Berlin Copy Share Image
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material. — Justin Cartwright Disasters Copy Share Image
'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers… — Justin Cartwright Advertising Copy Share Image
Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought.… — Justin Cartwright Architecture Copy Share Image
A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view… — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said… — Justin Cartwright America Copy Share Image
There was loose talk of Enron management practices and reminders of a scandal at the University of Toronto, when a big donor… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
In the new artisan coffee movement, Jeremy Challender, a 32-year-old Australian who is one of the founders of Prufrock Coffee, explains precision… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
If I was at home, I'd find myself checking email and looking at the Internet when I should be working. In the… — Justin Cartwright Coffee Copy Share Image
“The plane touches down on very rough ground: its wheelbarrow wheels bounce and one set of wings rises alarmingly while the other… — Justin Cartwright Film Copy Share Image
“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron… — Justin Cartwright Apartheid Copy Share Image
It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Coffee must be treated gently and smoothed out. I hadn't realised it was so temperamental. — Justin Cartwright Coffee Copy Share Image
Complete barista-standard coffee machines cost from £1,600 to more than £20,000. — Justin Cartwright Coffee Copy Share Image
It was my idea to do a two-hour course of barista training. I was keen to learn how to finish off my… — Justin Cartwright Coffee Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for… — Justin Cartwright College Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly… — Justin Cartwright Idea Copy Share Image
Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film… — Justin Cartwright Cinema Copy Share Image
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an… — Justin Cartwright Art Copy Share Image
Just before the opening of the 20th century, the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, are born into great privilege on the Upper… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
It is surprising how many people who don't read believe they have a book in them. Why? Nobody would imagine that Alfred… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.' — Justin Cartwright Catholic Copy Share Image
The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of… — Justin Cartwright Book Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike's, 'The Coup', which is set… — Justin Cartwright Book Copy Share Image
